Josh Long

Josh Long

Josh (@starbuxman) is the Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal and a Java Champion. He's host of "A Bootiful Podcast" (https://soundcloud.com/a-bootiful-podcast), host of the "Spring Tips Videos" (http://bit.ly/spring-tips-playlist), co-author of 6+ books (http://joshlong.com/books.html), and instructor on 8+ Livelessons Training Videos (http://joshlong.com/livelessons.html)

Blog posts by Josh Long

This Week in Spring - August 19th, 2025

Engineering | August 19, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another extra special installment of This Week in Spring - special because the next installment will be delivered from the floors of the Ventian where the extraordinairily awesome SpringOne 2025 event will take place!

So, some poetry:

T’was the Week Before SpringOne

T’was the week before SpringOne, when all through the code, Not a bean was left hanging, not even in load. The sessions were queued in the schedule with care, In hopes that the keynote soon would be there.

Developers nestled all snug at their keys, Dreaming of boot apps and APIs with ease. With visions of cloud-native dreams in their head, They packed…

This Week in Spring - August 12th, 2025

Engineering | August 12, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's August 5th! Which means we're only a few short weeks away until SpringOne 2025! Have you registered? There's so much to cover this week, so let's dive right into it!

This Week in Spring - August 5th, 2025

Engineering | August 05, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's August 5th! Which means we're only 20 days away until SpringOne 2025! Have you registered? There's so much to cover this week, so let's dive right into it!

This Week in Spring - July 29th, 2025

Engineering | July 29, 2025 | ...

It's the end of July! JULY! The seventh month of the year, done and dusted! AHHHHH! I've got memories of being on a tropical beach over the winter holidays, sipping rum and dodging mosquitoes like I was doing a rhythmic gymnastics routine just recently. It turns out that was seven months ago, not recently. Who did this to us? Why is it happening so quickly? And why am I wearing a jacket, and why do I have the windows closed here in San Francisco, right now, as I write this? NOBODY KNOWS. One thing's for sure, though: it's almost August, and August is springtime, as far as I'm concerned…

This Week in Spring - July 22nd, 2025

Engineering | July 22, 2025 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! It's almost SpringOne time!! AAAAH it's all moving so quickly! I can hardly stand it. SpringOne's next month, in lovely Las Vegas, and I'll be there. Will you? Have you registered?

We'll be looking at the impending Spring Boot 4.0 and Spring Framework 7.0 releases! It's going to be a ton of fun. Indeed, you'll notice that's a theme these days: tons of new projects in the milestones or early days stages of development, making their way down the winding road to GA, in time for Spring Boot 4.0 and Spring Framework 7.0. This is my favorite time: we should all be trying the bits…

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